Austin E. Quigley

Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) is the Dean Emeritus of Columbia College of Columbia University and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City. He was the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor.

Before he became an academic, Quigley's "first ambition was a career in professional soccer, and he played as a teenager for the junior team of one of England's premier clubs, Newcastle United," and also played "varsity soccer for Nottingham University and while a student there was selected to represent the county of Nottinghamshire."

In 1975, a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, "The Dynamics of Dialogue: A Study of the Plays of Harold Pinter", was published by Princeton University Press as his first book, The Pinter Problem. He briefly resigned as dean in July 1997, but returned as dean less than a week later.

In 2009, Quigley retired as Dean of Columbia College.

Beginning in academic year 2009–10, he "continue to teach at Columbia and conduct research as the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature and also will serve as special adviser to the president [of Columbia University] for undergraduate education." The couple have four daughters.

Selected bibliography Articles and parts of books "Creativity and Commitment in Trevor Griffith's Comedians". Modern Drama 24 (1981): 404–23. "The Dumb Waiter: Undermining the Tacit Dimension". Modern Drama 21 (1978): 1–11. "Pinter, Politics and Postmodernism (I)". 7–27 in The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Ed. and introd. Peter Raby. Cambridge, Eng., and New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. (10). (13).

Books The Modern Stage and Other Worlds. New York: Methuen, 1985. 221–52. (10). (13). The Pinter Problem. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1975. (10). (13). Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature. New Haven: Yale UP, 2004. (10). (13).